Where to begin… It has been an interesting week. I have taken over housekeeping and it’s been an interesting role here. There are problems getting people to do their work. Leadership has been spoken over me quite a bit in my life. But this is really my first leadership role. I have been told I have been doing an amazing job, so that is encouraging. One of the girls does everything on her own timeline, and doesn’t like to work, so it has been a struggle to balance enforcing the work and not being rude.
I have been asked a couple of times how I am doing with being here. I don’t really have an answer to that. I feel like I’m doing alright. But I feel kind of emotionally numb. Except to frustration, I am not numb to that one! I am feeling that one pretty well. But I have gone to quite a few of the tent cities here in Port au Prince and I have not been extremely affected by it. I do feel that that’s not how it should be. While it does make me sad to a point, I have not been brought to tears because of it. I realize there is an amount I have to be numb to because I wouldn’t be able to survive if I let every single thing affect me. But I just find it weird that I’ve been so little affected. I think back to when I was in India in January and heard about the earthquake. I cried every day that I went to the internet café and read articles about Haiti. Pray that God will reveal part of His heart to me. That my heart will break for the things that break His.
There are about 25 people on staff here at YWAM PAP. There is also a Mission Adventures (youth group mission trips) program that I going on this summer. They are staying at a church we are renting. There are quite a few staff over there as well as a couple teams of youth. We have a team from YWAM Kona here. There are 11 and they are in a PhotoGenX DTS. So they all have cameras and are uploading pictures a lot. This slows down the internet quite a bit which can get a bit frustrating for people that need to do work on the internet during the day.
I am learning a little bit more Creole. I have been talking to some of the older kids at New Life that speak good English to try to help me. Also, one of our Haitian staff, Jude, said he would like to help me with it. I told him I want to learn anpil (a lot) Creole by the time I leave in September.
I am sleeping alright in my tent on my cot. It doesn’t rain as much as I thought it was going to. May and September are the really rainy months here. It’s rained like twice since I’ve been here. The other morning I woke up confused as to where I was at. I thought I was in a real bed…then I moved and realized it was a cot and got really sad. My back/neck have still been hurting quite a bit, so if you could please remember to pray that the pain wouldn’t be so bad, I’d appreciate it.
We have worship at different tent cities every Tuesday and Thursday. This week we went to Cite Soleil and Delmas 30. Delmas 30 was really great. Jude usually leads the songs in Creole, but there is a Mission Adventures team here that has an amazing worship leader, so he did some songs in English. I held a little boy almost the whole time and he fell asleep on me. This probably did not help my back problems, but it helped my heart.
Over all things are going well. Some days (like yesterday and today) I feel like I just need a hug. Some one to hold me and say everything is ok. Pray that I will feel God doing that because I know He is.
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